Tokyo — Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
has told Japanese media his country expects to
sign a nuclear power pact with Japan during his
visit here this week, reports said Sunday.
Kabul — All things considered 44 candidates
applied by Friday’s deadline to run in
Afghanistan’s presidential elections, scheduled
for Aug. 20. But even before the campaign
officially kicks off, allegations of fraud and
intimidation by incumbent President Hamid Karzai
and his ticket are shaping the race. Karzai,
leader of the country since the U.S.-led war in
2001 that ousted the Taliban-led regime, also
has been criticized for choosing a powerful
warlord as his running mate.
I FIRST visited Israel in 1969. It was a time
when much of the Western world was still
passionately enthused about the country’s
triumph in the 1967 Six-Day War. The Israeli
victory was an awesome display of command
boldness, operational competence and human
endeavor.
Mogadishi—At least 10 people were killed and
dozens were injured after rival Islamist groups
clashed in Somalia’s capital on Sunday, in
renewed fighting in the seaside city, witnesses
and hospital officials said. The fighting is the
latest in days of increasing violence in
Mogadishu. Abdinasir Ali, a resident of the
capital, said he saw six bodies from the same
family on Sunday morning. They were killed when
a mortar shell hit their house.
